VIF International Education

VMware vCloud Air at VIF International Education

VIF International Education, headquartered in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, provides an exchange program for international educators who want to teach in the United States, and offers educational programs and resources to develop global citizens. When usage for its Learning Center platform grew from 1,500 to more than 8,000 users in one year, the platform experienced outages and bandwidth issues that impacted the user experience. By migrating to vCloud Air, the platform has 99.999 percent availability, providing a consistent experience for teachers, while using only one-third of the compute resources as the on-premises facilities.

“Our goal is to provide International education and experience s to students everywhere regardless of their background or location and to do this, we need to find very scalable programs that we can build that can expand broadly across large territories and school districts and countries and to connect these students with teachers all around the world in a way that is scalable, user friendly and efficient and cost effective and we have to have a partner that can grow with us and that’s why we are excited about our partnership with VMware.”

— Mark Haney, Senior Systems Engineer, VIF International Education

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VIF International Education

VIF International Education Runs its Global Learning Platform Three Times Faster with VMware vCloud Air

VIF International Education, headquartered in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, provides an exchange program for international educators who want to teach in the United States, and offers educational programs and resources to develop global citizens. When usage for its Learning Center platform grew from 1,500 to more than 8,000 users in one year, the platform experienced outages and bandwidth issues that impacted the user experience. By migrating to vCloud Air, the platform has 99.999 percent availability, providing a consistent experience for teachers, while using only one-third of the compute resources as the on-premises facilities.

“The fact that vCloud Air allows me to use the same vSphere interface to manage both our internal servers and our systems in the cloud just makes life a whole lot easier. I don’t have to learn a new system and a new interface. Even better, I don’t have to teach it to anyone else.”

VIF International Education

Learn How You can Use VMware Hybrid Cloud to Extend Your Existing Applications and For Development/Testing

Ever wondered how you can extend your existing applications from your data center into the public cloud to achieve agility and CAPEX savings for handling seasonal workloads, geographic expansion and data center transitions with ease?
How can you deliver a truly hybrid platform, allowing you to free up valuable on-premises data center capacity while developing and testing new applications faster?

June 23rd, 2015 8.00 am PST, we hosted a Google+ Hangout event featuring VMware experts and our customers as they provide a deep-dive into the two most common use cases for VMware vCloud Air : Extend Existing Apps and Dev/Test.

“vCloud Air provided us an Agile solution to assist us in our cloud transformation.”

VIF International Education and VMware

User traffic on VIF International Education's Learning Center, an online professional development platform for K–12 educators, grew by more than 500 percent in one year, but its on-premises IT infrastructure couldn’t keep up. This mission-critical service was running on a single server blade without power or network redundancy, leading to unacceptably high downtime. By moving to the VMware vCloud® Air™ platform, VIF gained vastly higher availability and near-unlimited scalability, improved resource utilization by 300 percent, and reduced its IT systems management workload.

VIF International Education builds global education programs that prepare teachers and students for success in an interconnected world. Based in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, the firm supports teachers, schools, and school districts with programs for professional development and curriculum, language acquisition, and cultural exchange. VIF is proud to be a B Corp, certified to meet specific standards for social and environmental performance. VIF is dedicated to developing globally competent citizens with the skills to thrive in an increasingly global marketplace.

“VMware vCloud Air represents for us the opportunity to deliver on our mission to deliver global education for all.”

— David Young, CEO, VIF International Education

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Vitrociset Spa

Vitrociset Spa wanted to simplify desktop management via virtualization, enabling remote management of machines in terms of systems and applications. To offer new user services, such as portable client services, simultaneously reducing indirect costs associated with client maintenance. VMware Horizon Suite has made it possible to manage some 300 client devices, and their goal is to raise this to 600.

“Adopting VMware technology for desktop virtualization has been life-changing for us: it is an outstanding solution”.

Vlerick Business School

In this video, Tommy Van Roye from Vlerick Business School, outlines how he standardised their IT environment to run all of the virtual applications on vSphere 5.5. In the beginning lot of physical machines were still in place so they standardised 99% of all their servers to this platform. Currently they are looking at next steps of virtualization and exploring different types of cloud computing.

VMware IT

To improve service delivery agility and responsiveness to application developers and test engineers, VMware’s operations organization implemented VMware vRealize™ Suite to accelerate its application delivery process. By automating the end-to-end provisioning and test process as well as leveraging VMware internal private cloud infrastructure services, VMware slashed the time needed to deliver workloads to the development team, increased the predictability of provisioning tasks, and decreased IT costs. The result helped VMware become more agile by improving developer productivity while at the same time decreasing project risk and application backlog.

“By streamlining application delivery and ongoing management, VMware vRealize Suite frees up more time for development and allows IT to be more agile.”

Vodafone

Vodafone is one of the world’s leading mobile communications providers. Vodafone also offers cloud and hosting services to a number of businesses from a wide range of sectors, including banking and financial services, insurance, retail and the public sector.

Many of Vodafone’s customers were also now looking towards a hybrid approach to cloud computing, with the choice to deploy in either the public and private cloud environments and with easy movement of data and applications between the two. With this in mind Vodafone invest in vCloud Air – as it provided a hybrid cloud solution that could enable its customers to have this freedom and the associated benefits of a hybrid solution including speed of deployment of new products and services and reduced costs.

"A key challenge for adopting a hybrid cloud and also a key benefit is the requirement to move a workload from private cloud to the public cloud and back again, have workloads spanning both environments at the same time.

What appealed to us around vCloud Air was really two things: it’s based on the same hypervisor technology that is used in vSphere which enterprises will have deployed in their private cloud therefore you can do that seamless migration from private to public and back again.

In many of the public cloud offerings that exist today you actually have to export virtuial machine and transform it in order to migrate it into the target public cloud. vCloud Air takes that cost and complexity away."

Vodafone

Vodafone is one of the world’s leading mobile communications providers. Vodafone also offers cloud and hosting services to a number of businesses from a wide range of sectors, including banking and financial services, insurance, retail and the public sector.

Vodafone aimed to create a true software-defined capability that combined private and public clouds to provide enterprise customers with a hybrid solution via its global network.

“For Vodafone, the Software-Defined Data Center is the future. Building out our private cloud according VMware’s software-defined principles has provided enormous benefits for our organisation, not only in the way we can deliver infrastructure services to customers but also in the speed at which these services can be brought to the market. We are now able to offers customers a flexible and scalable infrastructure that they can use to increase their own organisation’s agility.”

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Volkswagen India Pvt Ltd

Leading passenger car manufacturer turns to VMware vSphere to run a business-supporting application required to build a car every two minutes. Implementing a virtualized infrastructure delivered the reliability and performance needed to ensure the application met the company’s business needs.

"With the implementation of a virtualized server infrastructure using VMware and a NetApp MetroCluster, VW India now has a reliable and scalable IT solution to support business operations."

Washington Trust Bank

See how Washington Trust Bank uses VMware Horizon with View to enable seamless mobility for all employees to serve their customers. better

"Where we really crossed over the acceptance threshold, in my mind, is when I could sit in a meeting with some of our line of business managers and hear them discussing their business strategy and their business plans around virtual desktop infrastructure."

— Chris Green, Enterprise Solutions Architect, Washington Trust Bank

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WestJet

NSX Helps WestJet Handle Growth in Server-to-Server Traffic

WestJet is Canada's most preferred airline, offering scheduled service to 86 destinations in North America, Central America and the Caribbean. WestJet was looking for a solution to solve east to west traffic utilizing their current infrastructure to continue to provide exceptional guest experiences at an affordable price. NSX helps them realize their vision through virtualized network and security providing better performance and more reliability.

“Software defined networking is something I think that’s going to be a major shift in the networking environment. The fact that VMware is bringing that {NSX} into their product line, really shows that they are serious about their network virtualization and are thinking progressively about the future.”

— Richard Sillito, IT Security, Technologist

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WorldPay

WorldPay wanted to create a completely automated environment to help customers provision infrastructure in a fast-paced environment. The company has completely overhauled its IT infrastructure. A major element of this was deploying network virtualization from VMware. Its estate is now 100% virtual.

“In finance, time to market is of the essence. Our customers rely on us being able to provide them with applications and infrastructure to support their payments in the quickest timeframe. VMware’s network virtualization has been crucial in allowing us to not just be fast, but instant.”

Yorkshire and Humber Commissioning Support

Yorkshire and Humber Commissioning Support (YHCS) is a key driver of innovation across GP surgeries and health centres throughout the region. YHCS wanted to provide greater flexibility for GPs and clinicians to enhance both patient and GP experience. The YHCS IT team chose VMware Horizon 6 to deliver Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) and the ability for GPs to access clinical applications from any location. The solution has transformed patient experience and GPs’ work/life balance whilst reducing the cost of desktop PCs.

“VMware Horizon 6 has been transformative on many levels. Enabling our GPs to access applications from any internet connected device means they can treat patients from the comfort of their own home, with the same speed and efficiency as if they were in the surgery.”

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Zionsville Community Schools

Providing Students with Limitless Learning – Zionsville Community Schools and VMware Horizon

Zionsville Community Schools experienced challenges with maintaining computers and keeping costs down. With VMware Horizon the school district has provided limitless learning, and saved over $20 million in classroom space.

“We started looking at the long term cost savings. It’s well over $20 million dollars that we would be saving just in classroom space by reclaiming these labs.”

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Ziv Medical Center

Ziv Medical Center in Zefat previously had various distributed systems across the hospital and they wanted to unify them using a single solution which will be easy to manage, allow them to gain a unified view of all the systems simply and easily, and, of course, will be highly resilient. That's why they chose VMware View. The VMware view solution that they implemented at the zivMedical Center consists of two resilient storage systems that work in a cluster. This system caters for around 1,000 work stations. It's an environment that works as a 'Kiosk'. Their users enjoy a new work environment, a very fast one, with excellent response times. As a user logs in, he gets exactly what he needs. It's an environment that goes everywhere with him, it's dedicated to him - and roams with him. Doctors for example, may work in several different wards. They may finish work in one ward, log out, move to the next ward, log in - and receive a new environment that is adapted to their exact needs.

"The Ziv Medical Center in Zefat was founded roughly a century ago. It serves around 150,000 residents in the upper Galilee region, among them cities such as Karmiel, Kiryat Shmona, and Hatzor.
This is the northernmost hospital in Israel and it therefore also often serves the IDF.
They operate 1,000 PCs, 700 printers, and 80 servers, which are mostly VMware's.
The vast majority of systems in the hospital are computerized. This includes labs, ORs, X Ray facilities, external infirmaries, hospital admissions, the trauma center and more. Our IT unit employs 11 people. One needs to understand that the systems we manage are life-supporting. These systems must be constantly up and running".

朝日インタラクティブ株式会社(ASAHI INTERACTIVE)

Asahi Interactive manages online technology media groups such as CNET Japan, ZDNet Japan, CNN.co.jp and Tetsudo.com. The company adopted VMware EVO:RAIL to remain competitive in the dynamic world of media delivery. EVO:RAIL reduces operating load, while eliminating capital investment – thereby reducing TCO. This hyper-converged infrastructure appliance also boosts new service development speed by 40%.

“EVO:RAIL was ideal because it was small and easy to implement – and easy to use. A big plus is that it allows us to operate our entire infrastructure with one management tool, including storage using VMware Virtual SAN.”